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Simon & Schuster
April 2016
On Sale: April 19, 2016
Featuring: Sabitri
224 pages
ISBN: 1476792003
EAN: 9781476792002
Kindle: B0112OOQRU
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction
A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one anotherβa masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and torn apart by ambition and love. The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her familyβs situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single, unforgiveable misstep. Years later, Sabitriβs own daughter, Bela, haunted by her motherβs choices, flees abroad with her political refugee loverβbut the America she finds is vastly different from the country sheβd imagined. As the marriage crumbles and Bela is forced to forge her own path, she unwittingly imprints her own child, Tara, with indelible lessons about freedom, heartbreak, and loyalty that will take a lifetime to unravel. In her latest novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, and the different kinds of love that bind us across generations. Before We Visit the Goddess captures the gorgeous complexity of these multi-generational and transcontinental bonds, sweeping across the twentieth century from the countryside of Bengal, India, to the streets of Houston, Texasβan extraordinary journey told through a sparkling symphony of voices.
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